In the last four Bangladesh elections, more than half the constituencies were won at least once by candidates drawing their political standing from one or more family members who already represented the Awami League (AL) or the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP).
The two parties have alternated in power since Bangladesh restored parliamentary democracy in 1991, with dynasties embedded in both from the outset: the AL traces its founding line to Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, leader of the 1971 (…)

Le conseil municipal de Prague a approuvé la reconstruction du monument au maréchal imperial autrichien Josef Václav Radetzky. Le groupe sculptural original, démonté en 1919 lors de la fondation de la République tchécoslovaque, est conservé depuis lors dans un dépôt de musée. Radetzky doit sa célébrité avant tout à la répression brutale des soulèvements nationalistes italiens de 1848 — faisant de lui, dans l'histoire italienne, un symbole indiscutable de la réaction. L'historienne de l'art (…)

Prague's city council has approved the reconstruction of a monument to Austrian imperial Field Marshal Josef Václav Radetzky von Radetz on Malá Strana Square. The original group sculpture, removed in 1919 at the founding of the Czechoslovak Republic, has sat in a museum depot ever since. Art historian Milena Bartlová argues that this is not a question of historical restoration but of present-day political construction. A monument is never merely information about the past; it is a living (…)

À quoi ressemble la guerre depuis la position d'un opérateur de drones socialiste sur le front de Kharkiv ? Maksym répond avec une franchise inhabituelle : un commandement militaire qu'il décrit comme bureaucratiquement incompétent, un moral qui oscille au rythme des livraisons de matériel, et une brigade qui a reçu cent véhicules blindés et en a conservé trente. Il est tout aussi direct sur le terrain politique. Les soldats comprennent, dit-il, que la bourgeoisie s'appropriera tout ce (…)

What does the war look like from the position of a socialist drone operator on the Kharkiv front? Maksym answers that question with unusual candour: a military command he describes as bureaucratically incompetent, morale that oscillates with the availability of equipment, and a brigade that arrived with a hundred armoured vehicles and kept thirty. He is equally frank about the political terrain. Soldiers understand, he says, that the bourgeoisie will appropriate whatever they win — yet they (…)